[shoq]

I am not an expert. I just started with Ionic and got a simple App running in a few hours.

How can native development be easier, when I'm already familiar with web development in HTML, CSS, JS/AngularJS? What did you miss when debugging?

If you're only targeting one platform, the time spent to learn developing for it may be justified. But I don't see why you should not use tools like Ionic or Supersonic when building data driven apps for multiple platforms.